COMMENTARY ON AND ADAPTATION OF A SECTION OF IMMANUEL KANT’S CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
Commentary and adaptation of a section of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason in relation to conceptions from the cosmological and religious thought of Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton, from Buddhist texts and the Adinkra symbolism created by artists from the Akan in Ghana and the Gyaman in Cote d'Ivoire. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and the more steadily they are reflected upon: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. These lines, from the last chapter of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason , are the first glorious strands of a great tapestry of ideas. I read, from time to time, the sequence that begins with these lines, in the spirit in which devotees read lines of scripture. Is it possible to encapsulate more concisely and yet effectively the great polarities of human existence, the world outside the mind and the world inside the mind,as is done here by the philosopher from Konigsbe...